I am taking a week's sabbatical from social media and screens in general to get more in-depth reading and writing done. Happy New Year 2026 everyone #BookSky 📚💙

The Chaldeans’ understanding of astronomy and prediction of the heavenly bodies’ movements was something that might have begun the first scientific revolution. #blog #ancientreligion #research #folklore #myth #history nightwalks.co.uk/2025/01/13/t...

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. - Patti Smith, Just Kids #BookSky #PattiSmith

Dear Algo, ​I am currently relaxing, quiet house, coffee, kids asleep. Please curate my feed accordingly. ​Bring me: ✅ Cozy reading nooks ✅ Memes about writing plot holes ✅ Pretty Book Covers (especially Sci-Fi) ✅ People who understand that "writing" sometimes looks like staring at a wall. #BookSky

Rose’s story is a wonderful spotlight to end the year on! Read Morgan Le Fay in the Green Room for an engaging and inventive twist on the Arthurian Legend! ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/read-ela ❤️🌶️❤️🔥✒️📚❤️📚✍️ #WritingCommunity #BookSky #RomanceWriters #ShortStory #ArthurianLegand

People who live by the sea understand eternity. They copy the curves of the waves, their hearts beat with the tides, & the saltiness of their blood corresponds with the sea. They know that the house of flesh is only a sandcastle built on the shore, -Erica Jong #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

In "The North" by Subodhana Wijeyeratne, a young scribe joins a voyage to hunt sea creatures in waters that once belonged to the feared Northerners, but the truth behind the Northern myths is more complex than they first believed.

As the holidays wind to a close, here's a reminder that you can get my books nearly everywhere ebooks are sold. The best place to buy is direct from me. You can put in a request to your local library too! #booksky #queersky 💙📚 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 🩸

a unique mix of poetry and urban sketching #kindle & FREE with #KindleUnlimited - amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FH1Q4KH9 #paperback - amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FH9BN1L7 #poetry #poems #urbansketching #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #art #drawing #sketching #watercolour #painting #books #BookSky

It is in the silence that my hope is, and my aim. A song whose lines I cannot make or sing sounds men's silence like a root. Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. - Wendell Berry #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Looking for some fantasy reading during the break? You'll find lots of fun free books on this one, Paul J Bennet's Servants of the Crown, Patty Janson's Dragons and Lore full book compilation, The Secret Child, books.bookfunnel.com/scififantasy... 🧙‍♂️⚔️ 📚💙 #booksky

#Booksky #writerslift “Write what you know” likely comes to us from a 1928 Ernest Hemingway letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins. It has become distorted/misunderstood - especially on social media. When we see the context, it’s reasonable “advice”: Learn your subject well before writing about it:

Currently on my reading / audiobook list. Black vampire lore. Enjoying so far Adding to my #booksky / #blackbooksky thread. (decided to redo the thread)

Children of a #Selkie and a human often had webbed fingers and / or toes tho in The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland by Ernest Marwick there's a woman having a son with a seal’s face after falling in love with a Selkie man. Stuff about Selkies here: #BookSky 🪐📚 nightwalks.co.uk/2025/01/06/s...

Read ‘Stray Dogs’ 💙📚 This is an OG horror venture from a couple of the MLP comic artists (Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner). This isn’t anything groundbreaking, but the gimmick is enough of a hook to reel me in. I love when xenofiction uses the peculiarities of a species for the sake of a good story.

🐺 WELCOME TO CREATURE COMFORTS INN 🐺 This new cozy MM PNR series will be kicking off with The Handyman's Howl in Spring 2026. Cover designed by the talented @sheilkuroi.bsky.social #mmromance #queerromance #booksky

DO YOU LIKE KIPLING? I HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO KIPPLE NOW AND AGAIN 💙📚 #booksky

From Ants to Zombies: Six Decades of Video Game Horror Coming soon if there is enough demand, register your interest here: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/... #bitmapbooks #book #retrogaming #gaming #horror #booksky @alexanderhad1.bsky.social

Issue 18 of Once Upon A Crocodile #ezine (which I run, edit, and do artwork for) is now out! I did illustrations in #lego this time, which was great fun. #BookSky 📚💙 #humour #humor #publications #journals #funny #humorousfiction #humorouspoetry onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. -Jack Gilbert #Poetry 💙📚👀

I read "The Children of the Stones" yesterday, which is based on a TV series that first aired in the 60s or 70s. I suppose the genre would be Junior Folk Horror. Good stuff. Anyone have recommendations for similar books, eg The Owl Service #BookSky 🩸📚 #scifihorror #folkhorror

First AI came for our jobs. Now it's messing with dessert?!? Nooo-oooo! www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/h... #booksky #recipes #chocolate #AI 📚💙

December Book Challenge: SciFi/Fantasy. One book per day, no particular order. #booksky #bookchallenge 24/31

3 Trenched moats, 2 troubled loves & a dragon in a pear tree! This #Christmas, give more than 12 days of reading! Try before you buy. Download #Free sample chapters of my Epic adult #fantasy Imago Chronicles here: Smashwords ow.ly/aoK230mjQnw or Amazon t.co/SlroLb9uLt #Booksky #Readersky 📚🪐⚔️💙

And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. #Poetry 💙📚👀

#BookSky How many books do you read at a time? 📖

The yule-log sparkled keen with frost, No wing of wind the region swept, But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost. – From 'In Memoriam', Canto 76 by Alfred Tennyson 1850 ❤️ Warm Holiday Wishes to all who are missing a loved one this week. #poetry 💙📚 #Christmas

Some research I did into #Babylonian stones and #ancient #magic amulets, along with a bit about a magical stone in the book I #amwriting #BookSky 🪐📚 #folklore #amulets #ancientreligions nightwalks.co.uk/2024/12/30/b...

🎄XMAS PRESENT ALERT: 15% OFF🎄 #booksky #christmas #christmasgifts #christmaspresents

Do you have a 12-year-old who loves books like Percy Jackson and other fantasy titles? If so they will love The Pangean Chronicles and The Shadows of Pangea! Adults also love them! www.thepangeanchronicles.com #fantasybooks #readers #booksky

This one is for my fellow writers!! how do you get in the mood to write? I like to listen to my story's assigned playlist and look at it's Pinterest board! #booksky #writersky #authorsky #writer #writing

#writingcommunity #amwriting #booksky

Just a reminder that when we open to submissions on Jan 5th, we also want non-fiction. Submissions slots will be limited, but half of them will be for non-fiction. #booksky #writing woodpigpress.com/submissions/

Beatriz Bernal, a 16th-century Spanish novelist, wrote a fantasy novel about a female knight - with dragons, sorcerers, and a giant - decades before Don Quixote appeared. A children's adaptation, devised by children's author Diego Arboleda, is forthcoming! #fantasy #renaissance #earlymodern 💙📚

The classic Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo started being published on December 20 1982. Phenomenal piece of work. #booksky #comicsky If you haven't read it or watched the movie you really should.

Titan Books has acquired a ’thrilling’ multiverse adventure novel from RR Haywood, author of the Extracted trilogy and The Code trilogy. Changing Worlds will publish in September 2026 👇 #BookSky

Moi. #booksky #reading

A Windy Awakening #WritersCommunity #authorsky #5amwritersclub #amwriting #6amwritersclub #Booksky #Poetry #BookLovers #poem #nature #arts #bebrave #chronicillness #liverdisease

ALL my books are on the #smashwords end of year sale, some are even #free #booksky

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea. #Poetry 💙📚👀

#booksky #writerhelp #authorsky #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

How did trees evolve in so many extraordinary ways, and completely reshape the planet too? "using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning ... less useful mammals), & splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes" 👀⤵️ buff.ly/PYNSvSs

Shout out to one of our unsung heroes, the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub banner! Deserves credit for quietly promoting the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub wherever we move it to! #library #librarysky #booksky #nhslibrary

Great episode of The Happy Writer podcast featuring an interview with author and scholar Dr. Jennifer Lynn Barnes on the psychology of fiction and fandom and how these can help writers craft their stories. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #WritingSky #AuthorSky #BookSky

Today's haul from the Bloomsbury book fair. Some SF papers backs (I was only partly attracted by the covers I promise!) #BookSky #SFF #ScienceFiction

UMBERTO ECO BAILED OUT JUST IN TIME 💙📚 #booksky

I’ve finished all 3 books. What an incredible journey. If you have not read these books yet, I do implore you to do so. As soon as possible. 5/5 without a doubt. 📚💙

Selkies shapeshifted between human and seal form by shedding and replacing their skins. The word “#Selkie” comes from the Scottish word selch, which means “grey seal.” #research #folklore #mythology #BookSky 📚🪐 nightwalks.co.uk/2025/01/06/s...

Are you looking for the perfect Christmas gift for any #publishinghopefuls in your life? How to Job Search in Book Publishing is the ULTIMATE insider's guide! From CVs, interviews, going freelance and beyond, it covers everything. Buy a signed copy here: bookcareers.com/htjs/ #publishing #booksky